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lastest composition: Growth I – violin concerto
What would music taste, fell, smell or look like? How and to what degree is the music we create today nurtured from the humus of tradition?
next composition premieres
April 2021, Cologne: maybe yes, maybe no (2020) for two clarinets and string quartet
May 2021, Linz: Die Katze, die Ihre eigene Wege ging (2019) – chamber opera (libretto Anne-May Krüger)
new children’s opera Die Katze, die ihre eigenen Wege ging
Based in Rudyard Kipling's short story "The cat that walked by himself", Mike Svoboda teamed up with Anne-May Krüger, who wrote the libretto, to compose yet another work for young listeners. The opera, Die Katze, die
Read more … new children’s opera Die Katze, die ihre eigenen Wege ging
two new Concert Etudes for solo trombone
Commissioned for the ARD International Music Competition, Mike Svoboda has written two new Concert Etudes, No. 6 Six introverted verses and No. 7 Five extroverted choruses for solo trombone. Intended to be premiered at the
cartesian rainbow recordings
Two courageous percussionists, Zacarias Maia and Dino Georgeton, took it upon themselves separately to record Mike Svoboda's Cartesian Rainbow, a work for solo percussion which he composed in 2018 for the performer
Laudatio for Ashley Fure and Andreas Eduardo Frank in Stuttgart
The city of Stuttgart, Germany has one of the longest running and prestigious composition contests in Europe. Open to anyone of any age with a residency in Germany, the jury – which includes one performer/composer and
Read more … Laudatio for Ashley Fure and Andreas Eduardo Frank in Stuttgart
Svoboda's Die Bücher der Zeiten in the original set-up
In 2010 Mike Svoboda took time to write a piece, just for his own personal development with no commission, no requests to follow from a concert promoter, no one to please but myself. Some consider the resulting work
Read more … Svoboda's Die Bücher der Zeiten in the original set-up
conducting Birtwistle with Rinnat Moriah
Mike Svoboda will be conducting Harrison Birtwistle’s work 9 Setting of Celan with the soprano Rinnat Moriah and the ensemble zone expérimentale basel. The performance of the work is embedded in a larger festival setting